pommie

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/pɒmi/

Definition of pommie

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, colloquial, pejorative, sometimes)An English immigrant; a pom.
    ““It′ll be a long time before I do that,” the pilot said grimly. “She′s my Queen as well as yours, you know. I′m not a bloody Pommie.”[…]“Too right, it′s difficult,” the Australian said. And then he added, “All Pommies aren′t bloody. I used that as a kind of figure of speech.””
    “A Pommie. They were sending him to England to work with a Pommie. After all that he had done for this country they were shipping him off to a cold, rain-infested, windy little isle to work a case with a Pommie.”
    “There are a lot of Pommies in Australia; travelling round, looking for work, and Dad reckoned you could pay them peanuts.[…]If Sissy couldn′t go back to school, I thought she should help out more, then we wouldn′t have to hire a Pommie house girl.”
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noun

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, colloquial, pejorative, sometimes)An English immigrant; a pom.
    ““It′ll be a long time before I do that,” the pilot said grimly. “She′s my Queen as well as yours, you know. I′m not a bloody Pommie.”[…]“Too right, it′s difficult,” the Australian said. And then he added, “All Pommies aren′t bloody. I used that as a kind of figure of speech.””
    “A Pommie. They were sending him to England to work with a Pommie. After all that he had done for this country they were shipping him off to a cold, rain-infested, windy little isle to work a case with a Pommie.”
    “There are a lot of Pommies in Australia; travelling round, looking for work, and Dad reckoned you could pay them peanuts.[…]If Sissy couldn′t go back to school, I thought she should help out more, then we wouldn′t have to hire a Pommie house girl.”

adj

  1. (Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, derogatory, not-comparable, sometimes)English; British.
    “See citations at pommy.”

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Etymology

From pom + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). Australian from 1912.

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